Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales

• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their demographic used to include families with multiple systems due to the hardware being cheaper than the competition. They’ve never sold a basic console for nearly as much as the Switch 2, nor have they charged $70 and $80 per game as a standard. Maybe it will go well for them, we’ll see, but there’s no precedent for the way Nintendo’s pricing things now.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Main target audience: Children with rich parents.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Always has been.

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    • YesMassa@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah people forget that Switch 1 sold like hotcakes when scalpers were selling it for $500. And it was probably parents who bought them so they could be sure to have a Switch under the Christmas tree.

      So yeah of course Nintendo has raised the price, they want consumers to pay them $500 and not a scalper.

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